Ash-sifter



(No Model.)

J. F. O'ONDON.

ASH SIFTER.

Patented Mar. 7,1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES F. OONDON, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

ASH-SIFTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,616, dated March '7, 1882.

Application filed January 26, 1882.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES F. GoNDoN, of Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ash-Sifters; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to.

the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification.

The nature of this invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in the construction of ash-sifters of thatclass which are designed for use in private families more particularly, so that the cinders may be separated from the ashes and other refuse at the time of cleansing the stove or grate.

My invention consists in the peculiar construction, arrangement, and combinations of the various parts, all as more fully herein set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of this specification, and in which my invention is shown in perspective, with a portion of the outer wall broken away, A represents a suitable hod or receptacle, which is provided with a cover, B, rigidly secured thereto, and with the adjustable covers 0 D, substantially as herein shown, the device being supplied also with a suitable handle, E, by means of which it may be carried about. Within this shell A, I rigidly secure the diaphragm or partition F, the greater portion of which is composed of a suitable wire-cloth, Gr, while in the plain portion of such partition I secure in any suitable manner a slide, H. In the bottom of the shell or hod A, Iform an opening designed to be closed and unclosed by means of a proper slide, J.

In practice the device is carried to the stove or grate which it is designed to clean, the slide J being closed. The ashes removed from the stove or grate are put into the hod through the cover 0, falling upon the screen-partition G. By then closing the covers D C the device is read- (No model.)

ily shaken in the hands, separating the ashes from the cinders, the former falling through into the lower portion of the hod, while the clinkers may be discharged into the same department through the opening disclosed by the slide, while the available screenings of cinders and unconsumed coal can bedumped upon the fire, the plain portion of the partition F preventing the escape of the ashes. The operation may be repeated until the lower receptacle has become filled, at which time the device is readily carried to the ash-receiver out of doors, and dumped into the same by withdrawing the slide J in the bottom.

By the construction hereinbefore described I produce an ash-Sifter which can readily be used in any parlor in separating the ashes from the cinders and without raising any dust, and which avoids the necessity, as in the use of ordinary'sifters, of carrying the entire mass to the ash-Sifter, generally out of doors, sifting the same, and returning with the cinders; and as the various advantages embodied in my device are so apparent, I deem a further description thereof unnecessary.

What I claim as my invention is I 1. An ash-sifter consisting of a proper bod provided with a partially-grated partition, and adapted to be entirely closed by suitable covers and slides, substantially as described.

2. In anash-sifter, thecombiuation, with the body A thereof, provided with the covers B O D, of the partition F, grating or screen G, and slide H, substantially as specified.

3. In an ash-Sifter, the combination, with the body A thereof, provided with the covers B O D, of the partition F, screen Gr, slide H, and a bottom provided with the slide J,substantial]y as and for the purposes set forth.

JAMES F. 'ooNDoN.

Witnesses H. S. SPRAGUE, E. ScULLY. 

